Alabama

YOUR VIEW: Why the nation doesn't need more college graduates

In regards to the Cynthia tucker column "College Admissions" published in the October 24 edition of The Birmingham News, her data processing system seems to be incapacitated by a victim-hood mentality. Must every human interaction have a victim?

The nation needs more college graduates? No. Here's why.

Increasing numbers of students are taking on large debts in a gamble for a better life are petrified about the job market and with good reason. Two-thirds of graduating high school seniors attend institutions of so called "higher learning" while the elite professionals they hope to join account for less than one-third of all U.S. jobs. For decades, skilled industrial labor has been moving out of the country.

The Feds began underwriting student loans in 1965 and since that time, the coast of a college education has risen 20 fold. Every federal entitlement program is fiscally insolvent, operating on government I.O.U.'s